Composer Cheryl E. Leonard journeys to Palmer Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula to create musical compositions using natural sounds and materials

Monday, February 2, 2015

February Performances in Oakland, CA and Boulder, CO

This month I'm excited to be performing polar music and video works in California and Colorado, including a piece inspired by the Southern Ocean (which encircles Antarctica). The show in Colorado will be streaming live, so you can watch it from anywhere with internet!

Composer, musician, and instrument builder Cheryl Leonard will present four works about water created in collaboration with visual artists Rebecca Haseltine and Oona Stern. Inspired by hydrology, aquifers, and California landscapes, Watershed combines field recordings from caves, rivers and oceans with sounds played live on water, glass, shells, kelp, and sand. Frozen Over
is based on aural and visual phenomena from frozen lakes, and features
recordings of flanging, thumping, and cracking lakes in Yosemite
National Park. Rebecca Haseltine will create live video for these two
pieces using natural objects, drawing, pouring, and painting. Southern Ocean and Glugge
are shorter works about the polar oceans that Leonard has developed
with Brooklyn-based Oona Stern. Merging audio recordings and video
footage collected in the Arctic and Antarctic with live sounds from
natural objects, these pieces reflect on climate change at the ends of
the earth.

Pendulum New Music Concert Series
Music and multimedia works by Nick Balderston, Aidan Patrick Cook, Hugh Lobel, JP Merz, and the final round of the 64-Bit E-Music Competition. Cheryl Leonard will perform Southern Ocean and Glugge, two pieces about climate change in the polar oceans with videos by visual artist (and fellow Antarctican) Oona Stern.